posted by swhitney

December 19, 2012

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Belief in a Designer or Creator is religion, not science. Believing the natural evidence for natural phenomena, and using that natural evidence to explain what you see is science.

Von Braun may well have believed in God as the Creator of the Universe, but he used the Scientific Method to send rockets into space. The Bible does not tell you how to do that. It is not a science textbook, it is a book of faith.

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I'm not saying it's lonely to be a movie critic, but we often find ourselves seated alone in an empty theatre when we're watching new stuff. I know people who say they won't go see anything unless they have at least one other person to go with, but I've always enjoyed having the place to myself.
I'm not saying it's lonely to be a movie critic, but we often find ourselves seated alone in an empty theatre when we're watching new stuff. I know people who say they won't go see anything unless they have at least one other person to go with, but I've always enjoyed having the place to myself.
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As you might imagine, the vast majority of the editorial cartoons available these days for publication through the syndicate which supplies cartoons to the Athens Banner-Herald/OnlineAthens are addressing the situation in Ferguson, Mo., where the fatal shooting of a black teen by a white police officer has touched off a number of demonstrations -- some peaceful, but many not at all peaceful, with tear gas fired by police officers and gunshots fired by some protester.
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